The Brookhaven leader., 1887-06-30


90 to PowelPs.
Edwin Kidd has just returned from the
State University
CROPS are fine. Even the crop of can
didates is growing.
Spend Your money with Powell, where
= little money buys most.
uybly pcrfumcd olive soap % cents
box at KOhlman's.
Rishop Galloway preached at the Meth
,d;st church last Sabbath night.
powelIs stock is fresh and new. No
old. musty groceries ut PowelPs.
Nessrs. J. ID. Gadberry and Henry Kidd
oreon a visit to relatives here.
Pros. Fitzhugh and Prof. Murrah are
leading commencement ut XiOrd.
The w. {. T. u. will meet at the
presbyteran Church at this evening.
Mrs. Josie Crosby recently rendered
rocenton to the BrOokhaven Dramatic
Company.
CIsrERNs-A. Riggs & Bro, Delord
street near Dryadcs, New Orleans, Send
for price list.
If Won want cool, fresh, celebrating
drink try LewenthaPs ice-cold soda wa
fer, only cents glass.
We are glad to be able to announce
that Assessor Tyler has recovered from
his late injuries sufficiently to be about
his off cial duties.
DIR. Gadberry, of Yazoo City, is on
visit to relatives here and paid this Office
n pleasant call last Monday, acc ompanied
hv his talented son, James Gadberry.
For RENT-A desirable cottage resi-
dance at west end Cherokee street with
tour rooms and dining rooms and kitchen
For further particulars apply at this
office.
Too much stock on hand, and as mon
evils preferable to goods, will convert It
into cash as speedily as possible-call ON
Kohman before the stock is too much
reduced to make your selections.
Our Colored Fire Company had Il grand
celebration last Thursday and made
fine display in their uniforms. The Brook
haven Colored Brass Band headed the
procession aud disceursed stirring music.
In accordance with timc-honored
custom, the Mississippi and Tennessee
and Illinois Central X. RS will sell on
the 3rd and 4th days of July Round
trip tickets between all stations on line of
road south of Cairo, ILL.,, at ono fare,
good to return until and on the 7th day
July, 1887.
Tho Chancery Court is in session this
week, Chancellor McLaurn presiding
with hisusual ability and dignity. 1t is
expected the term will close before the end
of the week report of business dispoS-
d Of will be gwen III onr next.
Tho liz started about the organlza-
ton OF the "iiamilton Guards at Brook
haven, after running brief course, has
petered ont entirely, and the SANDER upon
' The young manhood of Brcokhaven has
thus recoiled, and returned to plague
its originators.-Neu MissiSsippidn.
The individual who squandcred 80
cents in postage stamps by sending us
the barrel and cylinder of an old navy.
elk pistol through the mails, can got
his property back again by calling at
this Office. There is 10 use we could put
it to except to club delinquent subscri-
bers, and they keep their distance these
dull summer days.
A respected COpiah correspondent
having seen the report that Brood haven
had organized u military company called
the Hamilton Guards, writes to inquire
eff they are all negroes" As they have
never shown themselves in public we are
unable to answer, but We are satisfied
that no respectable colored man of this
town is member of any such organiza-
tiOnf
Persons who want to puff their candi-
date friends at our expense, will save
time and paper by Withholding such
communications, unless they send along
the money to pay for same at regular
advertising rates-l0 cents for every
words. We have had to consign to our
spacious waste basket lately good many
handsome tributes to aspiring gentlemen,
because their friends forgot to comply
with our rule.
At the Mississippi College on last Sa tur
day evening, in a contest for u medal
in elocution, Louis E. Menger, youth Of
fifteen and member of the Junior class OF
the College, carried off the "Trotter Gold
Medal" On the Thursday evening pre-
vlous Luther Menger, aged eleven, took
the first prize in elocution in his depart
ment. These honOrs can only be account
cd for by the fact that both these pronis-
ing sons of Mississippi are brothers-n-law
to the editor of this Electric Lighter"
AS will be seen by the proceedings of
the Marion county Mass Meeting, DIR. T.
b. Ford has been endorsed by that
county for State Senator, and his au-
nouncement will be found in the proper
column. While we do not concede
MariOn's claim to the Senatorship, moth
ing can be said against the character or
fitness of her candidate, and if the Dis